The Bismarck class, which included the Bismarck and the Tirpitz, was designed in the mid-1930s as the German answer to French naval expansion (especially France’s two Richelieu-class battleships).
On May 23, 1941, the Battleship
Bismarck was on a roll. The largest and most powerful ship in the German Navy, the mighty
Bismarck had broken out into the Atlantic Ocean, sunk a Royal Navy battlecruiser, badly damaged a battleship and was poised to add its guns to a naval blockade that threatened to strangle Great Britain.
Ninety-six hours later, heavily damaged, the battleship was on the bottom of the North Atlantic.
Bismarck’s swift reversal of fortune was the result of a heroic effort by the Royal Navy to hunt down and destroy the battlewagon, and avenge the more than 1,400 Royal Navy personnel killed in the Denmark Strait.
On May 23, 1941, the Battleship
Bismarck was on a roll. The largest and most powerful ship in the German Navy, the mighty
Bismarck had broken out into the Atlantic Ocean, sunk a Royal Navy battlecruiser, badly damaged a battleship and was poised to add its guns to a naval blockade that threatened to strangle Great Britain.
Ninety-six hours later, heavily damaged, the battleship was on the bottom of the North Atlantic.
Bismarck’s swift reversal of fortune was the result of a heroic effort by the Royal Navy to hunt down and destroy the battlewagon, and avenge the more than 1,400 Royal Navy personnel killed in the Denmark Strait.